William Allen White Quotes

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Words are the voice of the heart.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.